communism bitch posted:

I have a very important question.

It's clear to everybody that Pot Noodle have been defrauding us all for years with regular sized sauce sachets in king sized pots. But clearly they're not going to change course and redress this injustice right now, so my question is: what happens if you squirt some regular tomato sauce into a beef and tomato pot noodle along with their special sachet of sauce?Does it work? Or do they have a special formula of sauce to be mixed in hot water?

Asking for a friend.

Guavanaut posted:

The Economist?

Pesky Splinter posted:

Shamless self-promotion

quote:

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Majority rules yielding minority spreading

Galam has spent most of his career explaining the kind of unexpected results that seem to periodically arise in politics and public debate. He ascribes this to “minority opinion spreading”, where an initial vocal minority turns a majority towards its position. Rather than being a response to a specific political issue, Galam says this is a sociological phenomenon that can be modelled along a similar path used in statistical physics to reach global behaviour from local interactions.

Galam’s model uses a majority-rule-based approach, with repeated local small group discussions occurring within the network. Think of these as the real-life lunches, coffee breaks and dinner parties where people discuss the news. During these encounters, people change their views to follow the local majority, unless faced with an equal opinion split within the group. In the latter case, people are likely to support the position that offers the least change or is in tune with their unconscious prejudices (Eur. Phys. J. B 25 403). As a result, over a number of updates and continuing debates, opinions shift to support the status quo or the opinion in tune with the activated prejudices.

An opinion that starts in the minority can quickly spread as long as it is above a base threshold. Galam suggests this threshold is just above 23% for groups of four people. In other words, although some groups of four start with no-one holding the minority view, over a series of updates a person will encounter split groups, causing a switch to the minority position. And after each update, the proportion of people holding the minority view will increase. Getting to a final point happens remarkably quickly. “In all cases the number of updates is less than 10,” Galam says. However, transposing that to real time would need an understanding of the speed of each update, which will increase, for example, as an election comes closer. One update could be between a few days and one to two weeks.

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communism bitch posted:

I have a very important question.

Pot Noodle

Wachter posted:

Don't gently caress with forces you don't understand

CoolCab posted:

:o you have the forbidden blood type. that's the good one.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Bobstar posted:

What was the name of the thing where you read about your own subject in the newspaper, laugh at how wrong it is, then read the other things?

Wachter posted:

Legit 100% how rona started. Don't gently caress with forces you don't understand

big scary monsters posted:

Labour elections finish tomorrow, I'm looking at Jo Bird and Cecile Wright for the NEC positions. Any strong reasons to go for Lauren Townsend or someone else instead before I click submit?

Jose posted:

this is a good read if you're bored and genuinely lol that bill gates hosted a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic in october

https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1245372101596532736

feedmegin posted:

Read that as ronya for a sec

Guavanaut posted:

O- is even better (for donating, but not if you need blood).

What's the weird astrology thing they do with blood types in Japan?

Jose posted:

this is a good read if you're bored and genuinely lol that bill gates hosted a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic in october

https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1245372101596532736

pumpinglemma posted:

Gell-Mann amnesia.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Blood type personality theory.

It's why all those fake character bios in JRPGs will often list it.

quote:

Takeji Furukawa (1927), 血液型と気質 Blood Type and Temperament - in Europe, type A is more common than type B, while in Asia type B is more prevalent, so Europeans insisted A races are superior to B races. A Japanese scholar, Takeji Furukawa opposed that idea and asserted that B persons were active while A persons were passive.

Julio Cruz posted:

turns out that your experience is not in fact representative of 60 million people

Bacon Terrorist posted:

Turns out the observation smoking is a cultural norm in Italian society is not necessarily racist

Guavanaut posted:

Probably my own biases here but electrics is fairly straightforward as long as you turn everything off at the breaker before starting and know what breaker controls what.

communism bitch posted:

I have a very important question.

It's clear to everybody that Pot Noodle have been defrauding us all for years with regular sized sauce sachets in king sized pots. But clearly they're not going to change course and redress this injustice right now, so my question is: what happens if you squirt some regular tomato sauce into a beef and tomato pot noodle along with their special sachet of sauce?Does it work? Or do they have a special formula of sauce to be mixed in hot water?

Asking for a friend.

Crankit posted:

What is the difference between the o negative and o positive blood?

Gum posted:

o- is mdma and o+ is speed

marktheando posted:

I didn't even realise fuse boxes were still legal, I thought over the last several decades everyone changed to breakers? I'm in an 1882 tenement in Scotland and it had breakers installed at least 20 years ago, judging by the inspection dates written on it from when this was a student flat.

Certainly you never hear people talk about fuse boxes like they did in my childhood.

marktheando posted:

I didn't even realise fuse boxes were still legal, I thought over the last several decades everyone changed to breakers? I'm in an 1882 tenement in Scotland and it had breakers installed at least 20 years ago, judging by the inspection dates written on it from when this was a student flat.

Certainly you never hear people talk about fuse boxes like they did in my childhood.

Crankit posted:

I'm not 100% sure I follow, unless it's a joke where you're taking blood as a drug?

what it really boils down to, is I want to know if the O+ guys get invited to the special donations too or if that's only for O- people?

OwlFancier posted:

Do you have a fusebox instead? I figured they'd all have been retrofitted with breakers now if only because having to keep a supply of fuses is annoying. And also people are tempted to jam bits of metal in there if they don't have a fuse.

Generally it's near your electric meter, or in a cupboard somewhere, often under the stairs.

Basically if the electric goes, where is the box you have to fiddle with to make it go on again?

Crankit posted:

I'm not 100% sure I follow, unless it's a joke where you're taking blood as a drug?

what it really boils down to, is I want to know if the O+ guys get invited to the special donations too or if that's only for O- people?

forkboy84 posted:

We call our box full of breakers the fuse box.

forkboy84 posted:

We call our box full of breakers the fuse box.

Jose posted:

950k universal credit claims since lockdown started

Whole lot of people about to learn how bad benefits are